Eight Ways to Make More Money as an Affiliate

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Every month, I make a few hundred dollars in affiliate sales as a blogger, and those who focus on this form of monetization make even more. When I first started selling products as an affiliate, I was lucky to make a few bucks a month with Amazon. Lots of bloggers have given brilliant advice about … [Read more]

What Louis C.K Can Teach Us About Selling Digital Content

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Louis C.K. has always published his comedy specials in a traditional way. He’s been quite successful, and I’m sure that there was no shortage of production companies wanting the rights to his latest special. Yet he chose another route – self-publishing on a website of his own. He shelled out a ton of money to … [Read more]

The 12 New Media Days of Christmas 2011: 12 Bloggers Monetizing

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During the 12 New Media Days of Christmas, we’re counting down the days until Santa comes by featuring some of the best blog posts of 2011 from awesome writers within the BlogWorld community! Skip to the end to read more posts in this holiday series and don’t forget to leave a comment if you’ve written … [Read more]

Must Use Self Serve Ad Networks

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As an affiliate marketer, or even just a blogging, the end goal is to bring new traffic to your landing pages, sites and blogs. What is changing, is how you can advertise and bring in a new flow of traffic to your target points. No longer do you have to blindly create ad campaigns on … [Read more]

WordPress.com Announces WordAds for Making Money with Your Blog

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Back in October, WordPress.com and Federated Media announced a partnership to help bloggers make money from advertising revenue on their blog. They’re ready to open up the doors and announced today their service called WordAds. It’s taken WordPress quite awhile to make something like this available and they say it’s because what they had seen … [Read more]

Infographic: What is Google AdWords?

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I’ve experimented with Google AdWords over the 8+ years I’ve been working online and it has definitely seemed like a little bit of a mystery to me. I remember receiving a bill a time or two and thinking “Wow, did this help my ranking or web traffic at all?” If you’re new to the world … [Read more]

How to Avoid Scaring Advertisers Away

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See what I did with the title? Because it’s Halloween??? I’m so clever… Advertising isn’t the right profit route for every blog. In fact, if you’re selling products and services of your own, adding advertising to your sidebar or posts can actually take away from your income potential. But for some bloggers, it’s a great … [Read more]

Three Books Written For Bloggers by Bloggers

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I’ve really been into reading books about blogging lately and have snatched up some good ones I think you should know about. Two are geared specifically for mom bloggers and one is for anyone who blogs. As bloggers, I truly believe we should continually be educating ourselves about this ever-changing industry. Allison gives us some … [Read more]

Federated Media Publishing More Focused on Quality of Blog Than Numbers

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A couple of weeks after acquiring Lijit Network, Federated Media Publishing is opening their ad network to more bloggers. FM and Automattic reached an agreement to provide advertising representation rights to the WordPress.com community, which consists of 24 million blogs. WordPress.com bloggers will now have the option to opt-in to the Federated Media advertising program. … [Read more]

Creating Culture In A Virtual Business

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Session: How to Not Do Everything Yourself Speaker: Laura Roeder In my talk at BlogWorld LA, How Not To Do Everything Yourself I’ll be discussing how an online business can move from being a one-man show to creating a team of dedicated, proactive people that you love to work with. One of the most important … [Read more]